Improvement in methods of operating locomotive steam-engines



GOTHELF GRTNER AND CHARLES DIEBOLD, OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS OF @PERATING LQCONEQTIVE STEAMENGINES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,864, dated December l2, 1871.

To all whom it may concern: l A represents a receiver, which is illed with Beit known that we, GOTHELF GRTNER and i steam from a generator by a tube, B. t) is the CHARLES DIEBOLD, of Lebanon, in the county steam-cylinder, to which thesteam is admitted of Lebanon and State of Pennsylvania, have in- I directly trom the receiver A. I) indicates a convented a new and Valuable Improvement in denser or reservoir,into which the exhaust steam, Steam-Motors; and we do hereby declare that j under control of a throttle-lever or eqni\'alent,is the following is a full, clear, and exact descripconducted by a pipe from the cylinder. tion of the construction and operation ot' the This invention is oi' utility i'or many purposes same, reference being` had to the annexed draw- 1, beside that described; as, tor instance, propellinp` ing makingapart of this specification, and to the ferry-boats or any portable apparatus of a like letters and figures of reference marked thereon. character.

Figure l of the (Llrawing,` is a representation ot' 7e claim as our inventiona side elevation of a car, showing application ot' The employment, as motive power in propel our invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom view ot' the ling;` cars, boats, or other portable steam appasame. rains, ot steam contained in receivers entirely This invention has relation to an improvement f disconnected trom the `generator, substantially as in steam-motors; and the novelty consists in the y and for the purpose specified. propulsion of cars or machinery ot' a portable In testimony that we claim thc above we have character by means of steam which has been hereunto subscribed our names in the presence generated in apparatus apart or separated from ot' two witnesses. that to which it is applied as a motor and conveyed to capacious receivers connect-ed with the steam-cylinder, to be kept and used as required.

The accompanyingdrawing illustrates a prac- Witnesses: tical application of our invention, the subj ect be- BASSLER BOYER, ing a street car. ELLEN B. BOYER. (94) GOTH ELF GRTNER. UHAS. DIEBOLI). 

